(3 cr.) This course looks at infectious hazards associated
with a wide range of human leisure activities,
from lazing on a beach to relaxing in a spa,
dining out, or simply staying home and gardening.
Participants discuss infections linked to salt and
freshwater activities, camping and the outdoors,
gardening, contact with animals, eating, foreign
travel, sports, sexually transmitted diseases,
body piercing, tattooing, and trekking to high
altitudes. Topics such as epidemiology, antibiotic
resistance, pathogenicity, plagues and vaccines
also are addressed. This course has social
organization of the science of infectious
diseases.
Prerequisite: BMS 370 or BMS 213; Every Year, Fall